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AM: Tom Ellenberger, Principal Project Controller at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory will present on "Scheduling"

Team-Based Scheduling: Project scheduling has been revolutionized by the introduction of specialized software like MS Project and Primavera P6. These are powerful PM tools that allow a team to have complex, decade-long plans connecting their entire scope together and integrating it into other aspects of Project Management, such as Risk and Earned Value. As the demands on these schedules increased, however, the schedule became less useful to the technical team as a method for planning and tracking their work. What was once a welcome addition to schedule management is seen as a chore. In this course, we will explore why the communications between the PM teams and the Technical teams have deteriorated and how professional schedulers can return to a place where their internal clients are seeing real value from formal project schedules. 

Tom Ellenberger is a Project Controller at Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore, California campus where he has been providing scheduling support to multiple federally-funded projects and is a frequent contributor to Project Management Communities of Practice. Tom has been working in project management since 2005, with experience in Telecom, Manufacturing, Engineering and construction projects across multiple industries in both the private and public sectors. When not at work, Tom spends his time cooking, singing in the worship team at his church, playing board games and ferrying his 2 daughters to ballet lessons.

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